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Monday, 22 October 2018 15:03 CDT

janbigw

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Description of my issue:

All of a sudden today my AVG Internet Security PC utility is blocking Akeeba backup from opening in Joomla back end, popping up a message that it has detected an infection with HTML:ChaseBank-A [phish]. It only happens when clicking on Components->Akeeba Backup from my admin menu bar. No other components are an issue.

It is happening in several sites with different Joomla and PHP 7 & 5.6 versions, but all Akeeba 6.2.1. Different site templates. Four different web hosts (so far). Earlier today I was working with Akeeba profiles in one of the sites with no issue at all.

I tried uninstalling Akeeba from one system, then erasing all files associated with it, and reinstalling from a fresh download. Same thing.

Have you had such reports from other users?

Monday, 22 October 2018 18:31 CDT

janbigw

Update:

As mysteriously as that AVG blockage started today, it later stopped. Now no problem accessing Akeeba.

Weird stuff.

Tuesday, 23 October 2018 00:29 CDT

nicholas

This was a false positive. Both AVG and Avast were misidentifying legitimate code for malware. This happened because of the way they are scanning for PHP and JavaScript malware, using pattern matching. Unfortunately they ended up marking legitimate core PHP and JavaScript functions as malware indicators. They fixed it soon afterwards.

I strongly recommend ditching third party antivirus for Windows Defender which comes preinstalled with Windows 10. It's actually a very reliable antivirus with the benefit of being fed with real world data from hundreds of millions of devices (and, of course, VirtusTotal). The update cycle is much shorter, meaning that false positives are fixed in a matter of hours, not days. I know that Windows Defender has a branding issue because before Windows 10 was released it was the name of a rather poor firewall. I don't know why Microsoft reused a name with bad connotations for a stellar product but, well, they did.

Since this is the third time I am replying to this question in 12 hours and given that 8 of them I was asleep, would you mind if I make this ticket public so other people can see that there is actually not a problem?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Sunday, 28 October 2018 11:57 CDT

janbigw

Thanks for the explanation.

I can't immediately see how to change this to a public ticket. If you can you have my permission.

Either way you can close it if there is no more.

Edited by janbigw on 2018-10-28 11:59 CDT

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